Tania Roth Appointed CAS Associate Dean for the Natural Sciences
CBCB Affiliated Faculty, Tania Roth, has been appointed Associate Dean for the Natural Sciences for the College of Arts & Sciences. Dr. Roth is a Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences where she studies behavioral epigenetics. ...
CBB T32 Program Featured by Sigma Xi
Sigma Xi, the scientific research society, featured the Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Biomedical Data Science (CBB) T32 pre-doctoral training program in the "Funding Watch" section in their May 2 SmartBrief. The program, launched in Fall 2022, prepares...
A Career Path Paved with Data
The Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Biomedical Data Science (CBB) T32 pre-doctoral training program launched in Fall 2022 prepares CBCB PhD students to be the next-generation of leaders in the field Bioinformatics Data Science. Click here to read the UDaily...
Neunuebel, Perilla named Mangone Young Scholars
Both CBCB Affiliated Faculty, Juan Perilla and Josh Neunuebel, have been named 2022 Mangone Young Scholars by UD’s Francis Alison Society. The 27th annual awards recognize the promising and accomplished work of young researchers at UD....
CBCB Welcomes Amelia Harrison as Academic Advisor I
October, 2022– The Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology is extremely delighted to welcome Amelia Harrison as our new Academic Advisor I. As the Academic Advisor I, Amelia will serve as a resource for students about matters concerning degree...
Rebuilding Plants’ Defenses
Erin Sparks, UD assistant professor of plant molecular biology and CBCB Affiliated Faculty, and her research team will investigate what happens when you take aspects of the above-ground part of the plant and put them in the below-ground root....
Research Leadership
Kelvin Lee appointed interim vice president of research, scholarship and innovation at UD.
Distinguished dissertations
Juniper Lake, bioinformatics data science, won the Interdisciplinary Research Prize for her dissertation “Muscle Disorder or Metabolic Disorder: Genomic, Transcriptomic and Metabolic Insights into the Pathogenesis of Wooden Breast and White Striping in Commercial Broiler Chickens.”
In Memorium: Babatunde A. Ogunnaike
CBCB mourns the loss of our Affiliated Faculty, Dr. Babatunde Ogunnaike. He served as an Affiliated Faculty member for the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. He was an expert in process control, modeling and simulation, systems biology and applied statistics.
Biomedical Research Leader
CBCB Affiliated Faculty, Melinda Duncan, has been appointed research associate vice president for research at UD and director of the Delaware IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE).
Marine Viruses and Microbes
Wommack led members of the Viral Ecology and Informatics Lab (VEIL) on a NSF mission on UD’s research ship. The VEIL members included Bioinformatics Trainer and Workshop Coordinator, Amelia Harrison and Bioinformatics PhD student, Barbra Ferrell.
For the Record
CBCB Affiliated Faculty member and healthcare informatics researcher, Susan Conaty-Buck, has been named recipient of the 2022 State Advocate Award of Excellence from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). This award is presented annually in recognition of outstanding achievements by nurse practitioners and advocates within each state who have made a significant contribution toward increasing awareness and recognition of nurse practitioners (NPs).